"Canon Inc. is a Japanese international corporation concentrating on the manufacture of imaging and optical items, consisting of cams, camcorders, expert screens, TV broadcasting as well as movie tools, projectors, copy machines, photolitography devices (steppers, scanners), computer system printers, image scanners, field glasses, microscopic lens, medical devices (including Computer system Tomography analysis systems, MRI and also diagnostic ultrasound systems), LCD and OLED panel production equipment, CCTV remedies, picturing sensors, calculators, high accuracy positioning as well as dimension tools (such as rotating encoders), and customized optical elements (consisting of lenses) for third party companies. It is headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.

Canon has a key listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX Core30 as well as Nikkei 225 index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Canon Inc. has 383 subsidiaries as of 31 June 2017. The number includes second-generation subsidiaries, as an example, Canon IT Solutions Inc. "